[pkg-firebird-general] Considering removal of firebird 1.5 from Debian

[Remco Seesink]

Hi Damyan,

My opinion:

I think removing 1.5 in unstable / testing is best since keeping it
around is giving a false promise about (security) support. You may
want to wait a few weeks for people who use testing/unstable to
read this and take precautions, and put the old packages and source
somewhere for download / building so people can choose to install it
themselves.

You could document it in the release notes. It would be really nice
to detect detect old database and give a warning with an abort option
early in the install proces.

Cheers,
Remco.

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:54:34 +0300
Damyan Ivanov <dam at modsoftsys.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am considering removing firebird 1.5 from Debian (unstable and
> testing) all together.
> 
> For:
> * 1.5 is not supported upstream so there's absolutely no way to maintain
> it for yet another release. See #432753 why.
> 
> Against:
> * There will be no nice-and-easy upgrade path for 1.5 users. They will
> have to prepare their databases according to some docs, then remove
> firebird 1.5 (package is actually firebird2-*) and install the current
> Firebird, test, maybe downgrade and do more corrections etc. I can
> prepare a wiki page containing the information from upstream upgrade
> docs. A link to that wiki would have to go in the release notes.
> 
> Also, I hope firebrid2.1 will be stable enough for Lenny so firebid2.0
> can be dropped too.
> 
> What do you thing about all this?
> -- 
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> 
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